The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-22

New England League.



N The Portlands will play the Lowells again
this afternoon and good game may be look
ed for. Bishop will probably pitch for the
Lowells and Small for the Portlands.
PoRTLANDS, Z; LowELLs, TEN INNINGS.
The fact that the two leaders in the New
England league were to be the opposing clubs,
and that Mains was to pitch for the home
team, attracted an audience of nearly 5000
to the game Saturday. Had Lynch or any
other good mand umpire. those 5000 people
would have left the grounds happy over a
victory for the champions. But Mahoney of
Lowell, who lives, eats and sleeps with the
Lowell team, was sent to preside over the
fortune or misfortune OF the game, and the
result was that the large audience was dis
gusted from the start to the finish. His
judgement on balls and strikes was poor, his
base decisions faulty and two other decisions
were made contrary to the rules-once when
he would not allow Thayer to take first after
being hit hard on the hand by pitched ball
and again when he allowed double play
Higgins purposely dropping fly to effect it.
ALL this was bad enough, and while both
teams suffered, Portland's loss was the
greater. The worst feature of Mahoney's
work was, however, his complete lack of or
exercise of control over Cudworth and his
IA
by the needless and dirty kicking of this
most disagreeable ball player-Cudworth.
He should have been fined early in the game
unless it is. as a Lowell reporter remarked,
that "fnes on Cuddy don't co." The work
of Mahoney and Cudworth in their respec-
tive positions Of umpire and capt was dis
grace to the game and an imposition on the
public who attended the same.
Mains, under the circumstances, pitched a
good game aud was hit freely In but one
Inning, the fifth. when the visitors earned
four runs. This seemed to brace his nerve
for in the remaining five innings but two
hits were made off his delivery. His sup
port behind the bat and i'll the field was
good. The champions were weak at the bal
and little duh ON bases. Burns, pitching
times effective. Sullivan caught him wei
and the Lowells gave him about their aver
age support in the field, not equal to the
fielding of the home team but fairly good
The game though tedious at times was rather
exciting and interesting. and was called OF
account of darkness at the end OF the tenti
inning, the score then being tied.
The Lowells were first at the bat and
scored q run on base on balls, steal anC
| two sacrifice hits. The Portlands had three
| men ON bases in the third, but Thayer closed
| the inning with fly to left field. In the
| first on base on balls, taking. second OF
| Duffy's tumble of Schoeneck's hit, and 60
| ing to third on wild throw and home on
put out. In the fifth the fun began. TIL,
| Lowells took the start. Tofling flied out tt
| Andrus. III. Burns made two bagger bu
was run down between second and third. d
| Burns reached first on their play and stol,
| second and then third. Hartnett made hi
sending Burns home. Cudworth followed
| with single, Duffy with two bagger, ant
| Higgins with a single, which coupled will
an error of Andrus gave them four runs TO
| the inning. 1t looked dubious for the hom
| team, but they came to the bat with blood II
| their eyes. Andrus made a hit.and stol
| second. Dickerson made hit, and Hatfiel,